Collected Poems (1994) Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCDAEFFGHGEGEIJKLKM KNEEOIIIIIPQECECECLR ESEIEECC| Lying in bed this morning just a year | A |
| Since our first days I was trying to assess | B |
| Against my natural caution by desire | C |
| And how the fact outdid it my happiness | D |
| And finding the awkwardness of keeping clear | A |
| Numberless flamingo thoughts and memories | E |
| My dear and dearest husband in this kind | F |
| Of rambling letter I'll disburse my mind | F |
| Technical problems have always given me trouble | G |
| A child stiff at the fiddle my ear had praise | H |
| And my intention only so as was natural | G |
| Coming to verse I hid my lack of ease | E |
| By writing only as I thought myself able | G |
| Escaped the crash of the bold by salt originalities | E |
| This is one reason for writing far from one's heart | I |
| A better is that one fears it may be hurt | J |
| By an inadequate style one fears to cheapen | K |
| Glory and that it may be blurred if seen | L |
| Through the eye's used centre not the new margin | K |
| It is the hardest thing with love to burn | M |
| And write it down for what was the real passion | K |
| Left to its own words will seem trivial and thin | N |
| We can in making love look face to face | E |
| In poetry crooked and with no embrace | E |
| Tolstoy's hero found in his newborn child | O |
| Only another aching vulnerable part | I |
| And it is true our first joy hundredfold | I |
| Increased our dangers pricking in every street | I |
| In accidents and wars yet this is healed | I |
| Not by reason but with an endurance of delight | I |
| Since our marriage which once thoroughly known | P |
| Is known for good though in time it were gone | Q |
| You hopeful baby with the erring toes | E |
| Grew it seems to me to a natural pleasure | C |
| In the elegant strict machine from the abstruse | E |
| Science of printing to the rich red and azure | C |
| It plays on hoardings rusty industrial noise | E |
| All these could add to your inherited treasure | C |
| A poise which many wish for writing the machine | L |
| Poems of laboured praise but few attain | R |
| And loitered up your childhood to my arms | E |
| I would hold you there for ever and know | S |
| Certainly now that though the vacuum looms | E |
| Quotidian dullness in these beams don't die | I |
| They're wrong who say that happiness never comes | E |
| On earth that was spread here its crystal sea | E |
| And since you loiterer did compose this wonder | C |
| Be with me still and may God hold his thunder | C |
Anne Barbara Ridler
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